From left, Monsignor Francis J. Weber; Ruben Mendoza, professor in the Archaeology Program, Division of Social, Behavioral and Global Studies at California State University; Rose Marie Beebe, professor of Spanish literature at Santa Clara University; and Robert Senkewicz, professor of history at Santa Clara University, talk to the media during a panel of California scholars to discuss Spanish Franciscan friar Junipero Serra's life and legacy, in Rome, Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)